HELGA STOEKEL

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Posted Mar. 24, 2013 at 10:33 PM

Posted Mar. 24, 2013 at 10:33 PM

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January 2, 1933 - March 22, 2013

New Windsor, NY

Helga "Mema" Stoekel, of New Windsor, a longtime area resident, went home peacefully to our Lord with her loving family at her side on Friday, March 22, 2013 in Newburgh, after a courageous six-year battle with Multiple Myeloma. She was 80.

Daughter of the late Alois and Emma (Bensinger) Dirolf, she was born January 2, 1933 in Rheinsheim, Germany. She married her loving, devoted husband of 52 years, Phillip Stoekel, on February 5, 1956 in Newburgh. Phillip, also her best friend, predeceased Helga in 2008.

Helga was a parishioner of Sacred Heart Parish in Newburgh and was a member of the Germania Singing Society in Poughkeepsie. Mom was a very sweet and caring person. She enjoyed traveling, knitting, cooking, baking, playing cards, visiting numerous Catholic churches throughout our beautiful country, and going out on Wednesdays for lunch and shopping with her lifelong friend, Ann Stoehr. We would like to sincerely thank all of Mom's attending physicians, especially Dr. Fausia Paracha and staff, Drs. Hadid and George of Westchester Heart and Vascular, together with Susan Martino and the entire staff at St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital for their loving care and kindness given to Mom during her stay.

Survivors include her children: Betty A. Kestler and her husband, Richard of New Windsor and Robert P. Stoekel and his wife, Deborah of Port Orange, FL; brother, Ewald Dirolf and his wife, Erika Bollinger of Rheinsheim, Germany; grandchildren: Phillip Enright of Newburgh, Michael Enright and his wife, Lauren of Montgomery, Kyle and Cory Stoekel of Port Orange, FL, Michelle Taylor and her husband, Mike of Newburgh, David Kestler of Montgomery, and Julia and Kendall Ward of Port Orange, FL; great-grandchildren: Kaitlyn Kestler, John Taylor and Jaselyn Enright; one niece, and three nephews.

Visitation will be held from 4 to 8 p.m. on Monday, March 25th at Brooks Funeral Home, 481 Gidney Ave., Newburgh. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated at 9:30 a.m. on Tuesday, March 26th at Sacred Heart Church, Newburgh, with burial following in St. Francis of Assisi Cemetery, New Windsor.